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  • Nikon on my Canon

    No, I’m not putting a Nikkor lens on my 30D, but I noticed my first ads on Flickr today. For a while, I’ve been noticing that Nikon cameras get a yellow logo in their properties area. For the longest time, I thought it was only a hack, but then today I got a big yellow…

  • The sound of gaming

    EA has released iMixes of it’s game music onto iTunes (which, if you believe some reports today has seen an doubling in use over the last year). Some of it is the generic top 40 stuff, but others is the original stuff that is commissioned for the games. This is good for so many people…

  • When platter and fiber collide

    I’ve been in meetings all day, so this is the first that I’ve been able to write (it seems that Steve has noticed it as well), but it seems that there are more than a few companies that are starting to look at the online usability. Corel and now Adobe (with Lightning and Photoshop/Remix respectively…

  • Funny Failure

    Will Wright mentions funny failure in the last third of the PopSci Podcast. They built the creature lab knowing that there are certain constraints that are required to allow the creature to “live” and knowing how flexible the system is, they also have a system that is very flexible and that will be pushed to…

  • Failure to understand… failure

    One of the things that they teach in just about any course that deals with life saving is empathy. I remember in my Bronze Cross and Medallion classes, the instructor would make us do empathy drills so that we could feel what it was like to be a drowning non-swimmer (pretty scary). In Engineering courses,…